There are hundreds of Led aluminum profiles in the market. One may totally get confused when we are facing so many choices. What kind of led aluminum profile shall we choose? If you are a distributor in your country, this article will help. If you are buying led aluminum profile for personal home use, this article will also help. If you are a led linear light manufacturer in your country and you want to purchase led aluminum profiles for your company to make led linear lights. You will also find some useful information after reading it.

Installation method

There are different installation methods according to our actual usage. The most common installation way we see is surface mounting. Usually, the led aluminum profile is fixed by brackets on two sides of the profile.

The second popular installation way is recessing. Before installing this recessed led aluminum profile, we need to make grooves on the surface of walls, ceilings, or other surface that need recessing installation. This kind of installation makes the led aluminum profile with the walls or ceilings a whole body without any protrusion.

Pendant led aluminum profile is for suspending use. With suspension wires, led aluminum profile is hanged under the ceiling of a space like office, supermarket, hotels, and other application places.

In complicated lighting projects, there is a mixed installation method of led aluminum profile. Such as surface mounting combine with recessing. Recessing led aluminum profile combine with pendant led aluminum profiles.

If one is going to buy led aluminum profile, he should probably know his lighting project well before purchasing.

Different shapes

Most led aluminum profiles are U shapes with flange or without flange. Also, there is V shape led aluminum profiles that are designed for corner led lighting use. And there is round tube shape led aluminum profiles designed with a half-round plastic diffuser or 360-degree plastic diffuser. Led aluminum profile can also be bendable to make different shapes for led lighting, that is bendable led aluminum profile. And another popular led aluminum profile is the circle round led profile for pendant use.

Length

There are 0.5m 1m, 1.2m, 1.5m, 2.5m, 6m length led aluminum profiles. Home users would prefer a length within 3meters. For large commercial purchasing, our customers prefer to choose 5m length and 6m length led aluminum profile.

Colors

The most common color of led aluminum profile is anodizing silver. And there are also other colors that can be made by anodizing. Another common way of coloring led aluminum profile is powder coating, any colors can be achieved by this powder coating process.

Design 

The market is changing day by day, almost 10 more years passed by when led aluminum profiles appeared. We can see from the market that different led aluminum profile suppliers supply different led aluminum profiles. Some supplier has the ability of design, but most suppliers just copy others. And their products keep the same for years without any development. This is not good. So when we buy led aluminum profiles from a supplier, we’d better know if they have the ability to design. Do they have new products to come out every year? As a distributor this the most important factor that should consider about.

From the above we get the conclusion:

For the personal use of led aluminum profile, have a better acknowledge of the lighting project is the base of buying led aluminum profile. For distributors or wholesalers, have a survey of your local market about the styles, prices, and also make a good survey of your potential supplier, then you can start purchase led aluminum profiles.